When last we heard from Michael Mann, his chest-thumping lawyer was bellowing, “I don’t bluff.” As Jonathan Adler writes today at the Volokh Conspiracy lawyers’ blog:
I think the folks at NR just called it.
Indeed. You can get the general line of NR’s response to Dr Mann from the headline:
Get Lost.
Watts Up With That calls it “the best Michael Mann headline evah“. But read the rest of Rich Lowry’s reply, too – especially the bits related to discovery, or, as Aussie Climate Madness calls it, “Mann’s risky path“. Red State also weighs in, and a sharp post by Powerline’s Steven Hayward concludes:
By the way, hasn’t Mann heard of the track record of people who haul Mark Steyn into court? It isn’t pretty.
Actually, I’ll bet Michael Mann had never heard of me when he blew his gasket, and I’ll wager his high-priced counsel never bothered doing two minutes of Googling. If they had, they’d have known that once they start this thing they’d better be prepared to go the distance.
Mikey has a problem. He can’t sue for libel without releasing all of his data and methods to prove that he didn’t commit fraud. Oh, what a pickle….
I seriously hope Mann lives up to his boast. Mark Steyn is an artiste at defenestrating overblown egos. This is worthy of a pay-per-view fee if it ever comes to that.